Red Bull admitted that it was in violation of UK recycling laws in 2007, and notified the Environment Agency of the fact and rectified the problem. Regardless of its actions at that time, the company was fined more than a quarter of a million pounds last week.
With its guilty plea to 16 counts of failure to recover and recycle packaging waste over an eight-year period, Red Bull became the UK’s top recycling offender.
It must now pay fine and fees amounting to £271,800 for failing to register as a packaging waste producer and for not meeting waste recovery and recycling requirements for the years 1999-2006. The fine was a UK record.
Businesses in the UK having an annual turnover in excess of £2 million, and handling over 50 tonnes of packaging each year, must register with the Environment Agency and pay to have the packaging waste recovered and recycled, in order to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
In a statement released last week, Environment Officer Helen Pavlou said: “While it is encouraging that the Red Bull Company Ltd came to us when they realized their mistake, it is disappointing that there are still companies that are not compliant with this important legislation more than a decade after it was passed.”
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